Install Tomcat Server as Service
To install Tomcat 7 server, you just following these steps:
- Download Tomcat 7 from this page http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi , note that we will download version Windows Service Installer so Tomcat will be installed as window service
- Run installer and select port 8888 for running Tomcat (We already use 8080 for Jenkins installation)
- After install successfully, a Tomcat service will running and you can access Tomcat server from localhost
- To control Tomcat from Jenkins, one user with role “manager-script” should be added to file conf\tomcat-users.xml . Then restart Tomcat server by service.
To check if admin user working, access to http://localhost:8888/manager/text/list and then put on user / password you just specify